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THURSDAY, FEB. 13, 1936.
THE FUTURE OF THE GOVERNMENT
With the prospect of Sir
Co-
true
importance of
which is only beginning to be recognised, is what use will humanity make of the power
By
of
or
PEACE?
AIR COMMODORE
of flight? In it to be a bless-P.F.M. FELLOWES, D.S.O.
thus diverted its normal develop mont from construction to des truction, and from this diversion it has not recovered and may never
fully recover.
Leader of the Mount Everest Air Expedition of 1933
Europa is now lacking, and it is mainly because of this that Ameri- can methods have no far outstripped European methods. There are also many attributes to do with human nature and the techulque of flying which, if properly handled, would contribute to the success of such an experiment. If auccessful, such an International control, because of Its economy and advantages woul automatically extend itself through- out the world-and this to the world's great benefit.
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a model
tri
ing or a curse? Sanity pro- vides one answer, insanity another. Soon, much too soon, after flight became
Humanity now has Immensd sudden and perhaps completely THERE DOW
America. This splendid model practical came the war, and experience to draw upon in the unexpected knockout blow from stands as a challenge and a pat- development of similar inter the air. Such aro Germany, tern to the sane in Europe. There national agencies, such as ship- France, Italy and Poland.
is yet another constructivo avenue ping, telegraph, postal, etc., and
Russia, due to her enormous now open and that is the sphere it is essential that this experience should be fully used. Close distances and. the distribution of of the private aviator. There is a analysis should be applied to dis: her contre of population, is in a natural amnity between pilats of cover the principles and motives class by herself. Actually the do all nations, as there is between sea- At this moment in all countries, which have caused these agencies visement of both civil and military men, hunters and all followers of
to develop in the way they have, aviation is to her advantage now, pursuits which are dangerous. the proportion of energy, adminis- and this knowledge must then be Countries dependent on see com- It has recently been suggested trative, inventive and economic, applied to the development of avia- munications which pass through that the time is ripe for the forma- devoted to aviation leans heavily tion.
narrow waters controlled or over- tion of an International private looked by other nations are now owners' club. If this suggestion in to the military and destructive, rather than to the civil and con- structive side. This great flow of | human energy and effort can only be dammed and diverted by the most strenuously realistic con- structive effort, both national and international. In any action thus
taken it is vital that, as far as hu manly possible, common sense
should govern, to the exclusion
equally of false idealism and gloomy cyniciam.
A great shipping authority said much less favourably situated than taken up and fructifies, yet another the other day that he saw clearly heretofore. that the air, as had been the case with the sea, must be recogning-1 as truly international before could be properly used.
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channel and a valuable one for the promotion of international friend- Certainly morchant shipping ship and understanding will have it and possibly even the navies them been opened. An essential to the
selves are even now at the mercy eventual Internationalisation of air power, and can be compara- civil aviation is that we should get tively cheaply sunk and destroyed, to know, like, and trust each other.
of
AT the present moment aviation The gloomy fact emerges that, and this international flying club has reached the stage where leaving out the Americas, the de- should prove a great help toward the military aide is highly develop velopment of aviation is, generally this.
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NOTES OF THE DAY the military and at the same time
WHO WANTS ALASKA
-and this is most Important—is providing the excuse and the only excuse for the continuance of the growth of military aviation.
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technically, but operationally speaking, to the disadvantage of At the moment the only con- Its use is only very partly under the most civilised and powerful atructive proposal before Europe is stood. Civil” aviation, much nations, and those previously most the western air pact and the pros- more gradual and therefore sound- secure are now the least.
pect of achieving anything definite or growth, has reached that point
In this direction in the Immediate where it is diverging widely from Unless this situation is con- future is very small. Knowledge- trolled and soon, it can lead to able authority has recently pro- only one thing, a tremendous nounced that until France and Ger- race in air armaments, a race
many see eye to eye, nothing can which has already started. A be achieved. vory Important fact in this situation is this: If air arma- ments can be kept small they VEN supposing a pact is ratifi are innocuous, but if they ard Eed, it is only another pact. allowed to grow large, by their Much more than a pact le required very attributes, unfortunately, to safeguard civil aviation. The they create an overwhelming very fundamentals of international temptation to the expanding relations have to be diafnterred and nation and a perfectly appalling dealt with if anything of perma- danger if that nation is control- nent and real value is to be led by an ambitious dictator.
achieved. At the same time, things being
The Immediate stopa which seem what they are, it must be to be called for are these: understood that air armamenta
Are
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Samuel Hoare being found place in the Cabinet, as Minister without fortfolio of a ordinated Defence Ministry, the question arises whether, as was suggested shortly after the General Election, there will be any further changes in the per- sonnel of the Government. At
There has been a chorus of de-
This excuse is the rock on which the moment, there would not nunciation at Washington directed civilization itself will split and appear to be any immediate
against Japan during the last founder unless some solution ac- necessity of reconstruction of the Ministry, but there is still several days, and the people who ceptable to all nations is soon dis- covered. Time la against the a feeling in some quarters that cry "Wolf" and point to Alaska are world in this, because in Europe, room will eventually be found likely to succeed in alarming the which is still the world's centre of for such. men as Mr. Lloyd American people to such an extent population and power, avtation. George, Mr. Winston Churchill that the projected multi-million questions unfortunately
interwined with other interests as and Sir Austen Chamberlain, dollar defence plans, now under
apparently to give little hope that mainly with 21 view to consideration, will go through they can be separately considered. strengthening the National Congress without much impedl- Government and thus increasing ment. We are not going to discuss nations on the Continent of Eu- To take only one uspect, certain
having come Into being and First; the desirability, in fact the public confidence therein. In Senator Pittman's attack. There
conferring uneven advantages essential need, to Internationalise this connection, it is suggested
rape have realised that aviation
upon the different nations, they civil aviation in order to remové of fair criticism in it, has irrevocably wedded England to that such a move would remove is much
must be accepted as a por- the excuse for piling up enormous the possibility of extreme ele-perhaps, but it opens too vast aEurope, and they have no intention
manent addition to the difficul- air armaments has to be generally ments capturing farther sup-field for argument and controversy, of parting with the immense bar-
ties of this world. To imagine acknowledged. they can be completely abolished port. Any marked change if not more unpleasant develop gaining power thus conferred up- on them until-all-their other dim-. would involvo dispensing with ments. Nor do we wish to comment culties, as far as England can
Second, an international commit is as unreasonable as to imagine tec. of, firstly, the European some of
that those nations which benefit nations, has to be assembled to in the present
mem-on the outbursts of other Repre- help, are settled. Nations being from the invention af. sub- bers of the Ministry, and it sentatives, such as Mr. Sirovitch, what they are, what hope in there? marines, or at any rate think towards and difficulties in the way vestigato all constructive measures would require a good deal of Senator Lewis and Mr. Blandon, None, unless these nations can be they do, will agree to their of internationalising civil aviation pluck on the part of the Premier except to say this: that the repeat- convinced that the wrong develop abolishment.
and to recommend means for its to sacrifice some of his old as-ed alarms and accusations, charges ment of aviation can be so danger-
What, then, can be done to im- gradual achievement. sociates. It is believed that founded upon a circumstantial sort us to civilisation that not to allow Lloyd George, Churchill and Sir of evidence are by no means parate from normal international the idea that the
Pacts based on it to be treated as a question' se prove' matters?
Third, the nations of Europe, unsatisfied Austen Chamberlain would be diminishing the possibility, hereto- difficulties is suicidal.
nations will combine to defend the air armaments to the lowest attain- primarily, have to agree to limit prepared to join the Govern-
status quo or that any nation, is able level. Unless they do this, and ment, on conditions, and it is fora romote, of a Japanese invasion!
deeply concerned with anything quickly, some great leader on the further thought that, in view of of Alaska. There is really their known desire to return to cause to suppose that the Japanese populous any part of the world gerous in the extreme because they inevitably give way to the terrible THE more civilised and the mord but its own interests are dan highest grounds of patrietian will the Front Bench, they would not cast a covetous eye in that direc-is, the more menacing does human are acts based on ilusions, It temptation which this new potent make these conditions too oner-tion. But if the war-care poll- flight become, and therefore it la has to be recognized that inter air power" offers to him to achieve ous, Eventually, it is expected ticians make over-much of the in Europe that its greatest monaco national dealings and relations are his ambitions. that Mr. Baldwin, who has possibility of an American-Japanese lies. Paradoxically, it is also in motivated by self-interest temper borne a heavy burden for many clash, they may succeed in creating resistance to its limitation
of the cd, but only alightly tempered, by Europe that the centro
no
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years, will seek a release from alarms elsewhere than in their control now shows itself. and the decencies of civilised thought. AIR power is such a very tempt
Whom.
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the stress and strain of political own land. Japan's feelings in this the gods wish to destroy they first
ing weapon to those who under- life, and speculation is at the
stand Its full potentialities. It moment rife as to who would be respect are not to be trifled with make mad, seems to be an apposite By all means think Idealistically, must be reckoned on that, before Supposing sanity did but to act constructively and the ambitious nations will agree to his successor, in such an event, and we suggest that the drum- quotation.
some of the prevail, even then to pretend that yet realistically is the only safely any measures to limit the use of The most-favoured man appears beating to which to be Mr. Neville Chamberlain, members of Congress have lately all would be plata sailing would sane road to follow. The problem the air arm, some definito move
be to mislead. .
now before the statesmen of the will have to be made by the "haves" who has had a fine record of taken, will serve not to strengthon
world is how to convert this rock to convince the "have nots" that service, first' as Minister of America's defences in the Pacific Let us appreciabo and frankly which prevents the interblending their needs are at any rate to be Health and now for many years but rather to strain them. We acknowledge that nations cannot of the civil and military aviation considered. How this is to be done as Chancellor of the Exchequer, should like to point out in a friend- he expected to barter strategical interests into a dam to stem the is outside the scope of this article,
for nothing. race in air armamenta. It is felt in some quarters that ly way that Japan's attention is advantages away
but it is quite evident that if he has not that degree of per-largely taken up with problems on The truth is that aviation has
nations are to consent to their There is apparently only one teeth being drawn they will require somal magnetism called for in the mainland of Aala; that Japan's altered the relativo positions be-
a tween
nations more the post of Premier. One greatest potential enemy, In
than a way, and that is by Intorna- some guarantee that their needs writer has remarked that his bear that walks like a man;" and
politient and economic sense, ls the generally realized.
tionalising civil aviation. This will receive some periodic and fair There are certain'
appears at present to be impos- consideration...? : thoughts and speeches are hard that for Japan to engage upon which, at present, are in a much not doing so to civilisation is not countries sible, partly because the danger of as nails, reflecting his financial war with a power on the other side stronger position to defend them generally recognlaed, and partly rulleve International tension and Discussion and ventilation is, mind, but against this is placed of the Pacific would wreck her selves against invasion, than they because
surely one of the best ways to the fact that as Minister of chances of over achieving un-
of the strength of before aviation's advent national sentiments. wero
pressure. Out of these discussions Health he showed that be questioned superiority on
They are those countries which
will arise evolutionary adjustmonte possesses human sympathy and Asiatic continent for years to compare widely separated from others no matter, what the outcome.". We
It is conceivable that the inter- conforming with the sound law of Health, to do his all that was Americans for the safety of Alaska India Australia, New Zealand, the about gradually. But will time per less some such system is inaugurat was ever ready, as Minister of therefore feel that the fears of by great stretches of sea, desert nationalisation of civil aviation in the inevitability of gradualness.
or by high mountain ranges, eg, the European area may be brought. It must be acknowledged that un- possible for the poor and needy are largely without foundation. His qualities of statesmanship They are asking Congress to spend Americas (from external aggres mit of graduainess in this very are, morever, beyond question. rnany millions on Pacific defences, lon). There are other countries explosive area? If it does, there ed-and to what better purpose Whilst there is no indication of largely for the sake of Alaskan whose comparative immunity to is still hope in action. The first could the League of Nations be put any Immediate change in the security, for the protection of a attack has been wrested from practical step, a step which should it is unreasonable to expect the Premiership, it, is only natural great, undeveloped wilderness of them to the extent that from being not present insuperable difficulties dissatisfied nations either to relin- that the question of succession mountain and forest which the almost invulnerable they have bo- because of Its many advantages, qulah or to refrain from using this new power. They will merely 800 facilities for civil aviation. This Mr. Baldwin has done yeoman 000. We do not suggest, however,
Russia in 1867 for a paltry $1,440, are England and Japan.
move, besides providing a platform force, if no other way is open, their service for his country, and that Alaska, is not worth keeping
for a further advance, would prove just rights. ing because able to look back on a record of no-one but America would appear resist an attack by mobilisation
whose facility to prepare to efficiency it would confer.
of the improved of the world allow this situation, to develop, then instead of progress which both he and his country to want it badly enough to fight for has been cancelled by the time
A by evolution we must look forward, may well be proud
Standardisation and a common Inevitably to progress by shocks and factor, for now they are open to a control is what civil aviation in war and revolution.
the
should arise in the public mind. United States purchased from come immensely vulnerable. Such is to internationalise the ground such use as a just act to attain by
when the time comes for him to or that no-one would take it as THERE are yet other countries the advantages of internationalia If by "laissez faire" the statesmon